Night Reels, a solo exhibition surveying the work of Denver-based artist and filmmaker Stacey Steers, currently on view at the George Eastman Museum, is really two shows. One is a continuous screening of three of Steers’s animated films, playing back-to-back in a room just inside the entrance, while the other is an exhibition of multimedia installations in the larger Project Gallery, in the far back corner of the museum. Steers’s stop-motion animated collages Phantom Canyon (2006), Night Hunter (2011), and Edge of Alchemy (2017) have a tactile visual magic, amplified by original soundtracks, each by a different composer. They are experimental and delightful, but dark and personal, plunging deep into Dada and surrealist traditions. Every second of motion in Steers’s films is composed of up to eight individual collages, which means each film (ranging from ten to twenty minutes in length) is built frame by frame, taking years to...
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June 2021
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June 01 2021
Exhibition Review: Stacey Steers: Night Reels
Stacey Steers: Night Reels
: George Eastman Museum
. Rochester, New York
: February 19–June 6, 2021.
John Aäsp
John Aäsp
John Aäsp is an artist, writer, and curator based in Rochester, New York, where he is gallery director for the College of Art and Design at Rochester Institute of Technology.
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Afterimage (2021) 48 (2): 131–138.
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John Aäsp; Exhibition Review: Stacey Steers: Night Reels. Afterimage 1 June 2021; 48 (2): 131–138. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2021.48.2.131
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